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An investigation of what? According to Legal Eagle's short (https://youtube.com/shorts/vUqsegzWbKo https://youtube.com/shorts/vUqsegzWbKo), the leak is not ille

• SllX 4y ago
  Let’s just grant the point for the purposes of this conversation (which is not to say I agree, this has not ever actually happened before but could be considered theft of government property, but just for this conversation we’ll set that aside): would you want to keep someone on staff that violates your trust for politically motivated reasons? It’s not just the current Justices and staff that want to know either. There has never been a before-the-fact wholesale leak of a draft opinion, but there have been months after-the-fact leaks that saw the leaker completely shunned by the community around SCOTUS independent of political affiliation or judicial philosophy from former and current clerks to the Justices themselves. They keep it tight, and clerkships, SCOTUS or otherwise, are usually the ultimate networking opportunity. Simply put, it was unprofessional and everyone involved has an interest in determining who it was no matter what the political motivations were or the hoped for outcome.